Focus Features released the official trailer for “Girls Like Girls,” the feature adaptation of Hayley Kiyoko’s hit single and best-selling novel of the same name, with the film set to open in theaters nationwide on June 19. Kiyoko directed the coming-of-age romance, translating the personal charge of her original story into a full-length narrative built around first love, first honesty, and the complicated relief of finally seeing yourself clearly. The setup stayed intimate on purpose: one summer, one new town, and one friendship that shifted into something harder to name until it became unavoidable for both of them.
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Kiyoko also shaped the film from the ground up behind the camera: the story was credited to Kiyoko and Chloe Okuno (“Watcher“), while the screenplay was credited to Kiyoko and Stefanie Scott. The producer roster included Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Michael Philip, Jason Moring, Richard Alan Reid, Katie McNicol, and Dee Best—an ensemble that suggested a glossy, character-driven studio release with room for romance and heartbreak in the same breath.
The synopsis framed the movie as a sun-drenched coming-of-age memory, following new-girl-in-town Coley as she fell in love for the first time while learning to accept herself along the way. Because the source material existed as both a song and a novel, the feature adapted a story Kiyoko had already told in two different forms—now reshaped for the screen entirely. Kiyoko’s music remained part of the film’s DNA, and the adaptation was said to feature all-new songs from the filmmaker. In other words, the emotional language of the project wasn’t only in dialogue and performance; it was also in the way the music could carry what Coley couldn’t yet articulate.
The cast featured Maya da Costa, Myra Molloy, Levon Hawke, and Zach Braff. Focus kept the pitch clean: a specific, heartfelt queer love story anchored in a familiar summer setting, made by the artist who wrote the original blueprint and now expanded it with a filmmaker’s control over tone, rhythm, and feeling. “Girls Like Girls” arrived June 19.
Watch the first trailer below.
